Chapter 26

[123] Compare p. 121 (anteà). The bell is not mentioned elsewhere in this story.

[124] A beer-barrel with a tap, for general use, often stands in the houses of the Esthonian peasantry.

[125] "And as to the sword, if it be drawn against an army, and its bearer shake it, he will rout the army; and if he say to it at the time of his shaking it, 'Slay this army,' there will proceed from that sword a lightning which will slay the whole army."— _Story of Joodar_ ( _Thousand and One Nights_ ).

[126] Compare the scene between the Kalevide and Tühi, in